00:00Dear viewers, welcome to Lokhmad times. For the last few weeks we have been covering the roads
00:15of Mumbai, the infrastructure of Mumbai, the condition of roads in Mumbai. Earlier we had
00:20covered the entry point of Mumbai on the western side, the Dahisar Chek Naka and we had showed
00:25you what was the condition of the road at the Dahisar Chek Naka, let alone potholes. There
00:30were big craters and bikers and car owners had to travel through those craters. Today we had come
00:35here at the Mulundairoli junction. Dahisar Chek Naka was the western entry point of Mumbai. This is the
00:41eastern entry point of Mumbai and today we are going to show you the condition of the road over
00:45here as well. Let me remind you that we had done a video about this particular location a few weeks
00:51ago. We had done a video about what was the condition of this road, how big were the potholes
00:56and how hard it was for the commuters to travel over there. After that, after almost two months,
01:02the Mumbai entry point MEP which handles this road has patched this road and you can still
01:08see the condition of the patchwork. After being patched, this is how this road looks. This
01:13is the condition of the road after the patchwork. Let me give you a few background of this. The
01:18road that you see in the background that is Eastern Express Highway. This road from Thane
01:24to Mumbai and Mumbai back to Thane and this is the Mulundairoli junction. Commuters from
01:31Thane, from Mulund, from Kanjurmar, Bhandup and adjacent areas, if they have to go to
01:37Iroli or Navi Mumbai, they have to take this road and vice versa. People from Iroli and Navi
01:43Mumbai who have to come inside Mumbai, they also have to take this road. This is the main entry
01:48point on the eastern side of Mumbai and the traffic condition because of the condition
01:53of the road is very much visible to you. You can have a look at it. Daily 1.5 lakh vehicles
01:59commute on this road and it includes school buses. It includes ambulances and this is the
02:05condition of the road. Imagine if a school bus, if an ambulance toppled over this road,
02:12what would be the situation? This is the patchwork. It will take and I will give you an estimate.
02:17It will take only two to three rains and this patchwork done by the MEP will also be washed
02:24away and the condition will be same. This is the statement I am making after observing
02:29multiple roads in Mumbai because they do patchwork and after a few rains, the situation becomes
02:35same. The potholes come back. The gravel, the asphalt they have put in, it gets washed
02:40away. We have a few commuters with us who travel on this road daily. We will ask them about the situation
02:45on this road and we will get to know what their feelings are about the condition of this road.
02:48Sir, tell me, what do you think of this road?
02:51Sir, tell me, I am traveling from this road. I am traveling from 5 years now. But it is not
02:56a beautiful road. This road is not a highway on touch. The road is on touch. We have a
02:59road to Mumbai, to Mumbai, these roads are connected. There are a toll on the north of the
03:03road. There are a toll on this road. There is a toll on the road with a difficult road.
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04:06of them?
04:07They will be more than half of them.
04:13Just to open up.
04:16What happened?
04:19What happened?
04:21They started the work of the city.
04:25I live in the area of the area of the area.
04:27I tell you, with my house,
04:30there are all bridges and roads on my house.
04:33And there are bridges and roads,
04:35which will be made by the path?
04:36I mean, which path is for people to stay for the road?
04:39For the level of the road,
04:41but these people think that if you go above it,
04:43then the person will die.
04:45It's a big road on the area of the area of the area.
04:48I can't go to the area of the area of the area.
04:50I can go to the area of the area of the area of the area.
04:52I mean, there are accidents in the area of the area.
04:54What are you doing?
04:55I mean, you can say,
04:56you have to say,
04:58what's your best time for our life?
04:59Yes, sir.
05:00We use the car to drive the car in the cold.
05:03We only have to keep in the cold.
05:04Our day is down to 10 to 12 hours.
05:07We can see that we continue in 1 month,
05:101 month, 1 month, the door is open.
05:12What's happening here?
05:14They are making no money.
05:15No, no, no.
05:16They are not doing anything.
05:17Everything is getting angry.
05:19No, no, no.
05:20We have to keep in mind that
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05:51They asked them to clear the road.
05:55After the road, they gave them a letter.
06:03They said they did something, but they didn't do anything.
06:07What do you say about the patch?
06:09The patch is not too much.
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06:41So I rule it up, you have to sit on the whole place, you have to take the plane road, on the whole place.
06:49So this is what the commuters are saying, who travel over here daily, these are their feelings and they do not really sound optimistic about this road getting fixed.
06:58They say they do the patchwork and it gets washed away in a single rain.
07:02So this is the condition of entry point of Mumbai, this is the eastern entry point of Mumbai.
07:06This is the place from where people enter in Mumbai from eastern side and this is the situation here.
07:11We'll keep asking the same question, we'll keep asking authorities if these are the roads we deserve and we'll keep bringing you stories from ground.
07:18This is Tejas Joshi reporting for Lokmat times with cameraman Roshan Gharke.
